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June 21, 2010

Gmail's Redesigned Contact Cards

Gmail's contact cards, which show up when you mouse over the sender of a message or a Gmail Chat contact, have a new interface. Action buttons are displayed at the bottom of the card and you can no longer edit the name of a contact inline. When you click on the name of a contact, Gmail opens the contact manager.

If you'd like to see how much Gmail has evolved since 2007, open Gmail's old version. It's surprising to see that Gmail still offers the old version, which lacks most of the features released in the past three years.

I really miss the inline Edit contact name, they could add an mouseover icon near Name to edit it inline.Also, I would like to see a button "Recent conversations" and not have to click on "Video&More" and then select it from the menu. (because of it I also too often accidentaly click on invite to video chat :-P )

Ironic how the sample screen-shot looks suspiciously like the blog comment spam we see a lot in a popular blog; were blogspot to do some basic datamining of comments and spam (which languages and links does a site always delete, what poster characteristics can you view as suspicious) there'd be less such comments to filter through.

GMail began to be very annoying in hiding my labels, considering, of course, that I didn't enable that Labs thing to hide them. It just started few days ago to hide them and I hate it. Where can I send an e-mail to them to fix this bug?

That happens to me a lot when I try to click recent converstaions. It's a browser flaw; the popup menu is often partly out of the window, and when you click on it I think it moves it up and then processes the click, which puts it on 'invite to chat' instead of 'recent conversations. I hope they fix that, it's annoying.